West Africa

Cameroon has begun developing a national system of energy accounts designed to strengthen evidence-based policymaking, improve energy planning and support the country’s long-term economic and environmental objectives, as governments across…

Burkina Faso is advancing efforts to modernise its legal and administrative systems through greater adoption of digital technologies and artificial intelligence, as notaries, policymakers and institutional stakeholders gathered in Bobo-Dioulasso…

Residents across Eastern Accra and parts of the Tema Metropolitan area are facing recurring water shortages after operational disruptions at Ghana Water Ltd’s (GWL) Kpong Water Treatment Plant reduced production…

Ghana’s Ministry of Energy and Green Transition has received the findings of an official investigation into the fire that damaged the Akosombo Substation, a key component of the country’s electricity…

A renewed debate over environmental governance and the rule of law has emerged in Ghana after a legal practitioner called for the introduction of a “shoot-and-kill” law against illegal miners,…

MTN Nigeria has strengthened its position as one of Africa’s leading corporate sustainability reporters after publishing its 2025 Sustainability Report in compliance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) S1 and…

Mali’s military government has announced a reward of two billion CFA francs (approximately $3.5 million) for information leading to the capture or killing of jihadist leader Iyad Ag Ghaly, escalating…

Authorities in Côte d’Ivoire have intensified demolition operations in the Vridi 3 district near the Port of Abidjan, displacing hundreds of residents as part of a government-led effort to remove structures deemed unsafe and…

Benin President Romuald Wadagni’s visits to Niger and Burkina Faso this week mark the strongest indication yet of a diplomatic reset between Coastal West Africa and the military-led Sahel states, with…

Senegal’s President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has unveiled a new 30-member cabinet that excludes representatives of the ruling PASTEF party, marking a significant escalation in the political rupture between the president…